Audio Recording Samuel W. Allen and Ned O'Gorman reading and discussing their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Nov. 20, 1972

Title

• Samuel W. Allen and Ned O'Gorman reading and discussing their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Nov. 20, 1972

Summary

• In the course of the program, Mr. Allen reads ten poems from his Ivory tusks collection and fifteen uncollected poems. Mr. O'Gorman reads six selections from his The night of the hammer collection and four selections from his The flag the hawk flies collection, and two uncollected works.

Names

• Allen, Samuel W.
• Jacobsen, Josephine
• O'Gorman, Ned, 1929-2014
• Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
• Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund

Created / Published

• 1972.

Contents

• Mr. Allen reads: Mood -- There are no tears -- Eyes watch the stars -- Juan Trippe -- Song -- On Sargasso's sea -- The serpent -- I say, Mr. Armstrong -- To Satch -- Including the dead -- The people -- Omen -- Shrouded voices -- In my father's house -- Agassou -- I did not climb the apple tree -- Nat Turner -- My friend -- Springtime, Ghetto, U.S.A. -- View from the corner -- As Kine grew cold (in a funeral home in Memphis, Tenn.) -- To one early dead -- An epilogue -- Upon a sloping path -- When I die --
• Mr. O'Gorman reads: Sing my mouth -- Cuckoos -- The swing -- A am a dull mosaic boy -- The tunnel -- On Saint Theresa's difficulty in keeping her feet on the ground -- Ten poems of a misanthrope -- Dan Brick talks to God's wife -- The horse -- Biting down on fish -- On a bed of lavender at Regina Laudis Monastery crisscrossed by bees and butterflies -- The Drunken organ repairman.

Notes

• -  Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
• -  Sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• -  Literary recording, rev., enl., ed., p. 5.
• -  Josephine Jacobsen introduces the program and moderates the discussion.

Medium

• 1 sound tape reel (76 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 10 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

• LWO 7087

Library of Congress Control Number

• 94838607

Online Format

• audio

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/94838607

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